End of tenancy clean diy or hire someone?

[Deptofdebt]

Been quoted just shy of £500 for an end of tenancy clean. This feels absolutely barking mad to me 😭 we are absolutely flat broke at the moment, rising costs has put our living expenses to over £5000 a month so we are constantly in the negative, using credit cards to buy milk!! However, if we don’t pay someone what are the chances of the LL keeping our deposit? We desperately need it all back in order to pay for our new rental. It’s a pretty big house, 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. I have a 4 year old and a 16 week old baby so it would probably be easier to pay someone, however I would need to borrow it from somewhere (not sure where!).

has anyone done their own end of tenancy clean? I’m not even sure if it’s allowed?! It probably sounds like we are very wealthy with a big house, but we were housing DHs family who left us up shit creek with all their bills and their rent and completely destroyed us financially so… 😬

This was very annoying as I had rented as the landlord moved out and place was filthy 😬

I would do it yourself - it’s much easier when you’ve moved your stuff out.

How do you clean curtains? My place has heavy types - dry clean?

End of tenancy cleans are expensive, so £500 doesn’t surprise me at all. If you can’t afford it, have you got anyone that could help you OP? Even if someone could look after the children while you clean will help, clear down one room at a time, dust everywhere, behind rads etc, pay a lot of attention to the kitchen and bathroom. Good luck.

We rented for nearly 10 years and lived in 4 houses during that time.
We always did the cleaning ourselves when it was time to move out, but did it over a week, so it was less stressful then frantically trying to do it all in a day or two. We would go over areas twice, especially in the kitchen. For the oven, we used to use that industrial strength oven cleaner and leave it overnight. The ovens were always sparkling clean!

It can be done, but appreciate with 2 very young children, that it might not be easy.

£500 seems very expensive but I’ve never paid for a cleaner, so no idea about costs.